Originally Posted By: peter
the false idea that private medical care outside the NHS system is unavailable in the UK

Sadly, in most Canadian provinces, private health care that duplicates state-run health care is unavailable, due to vagaries of the specifics of their system. (I forget the details, but it has something to do with reducing the resources available to the government system.) And since many in the US like to conflate the UK and Canadian health care systems, even though they bear little resemblance, you frequently get stuck with that misapprehension.
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Bitt Faulk